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Old 09-20-2022, 11:22 AM   #11418
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It’s also potentially alienating for fans who see someone a couple of times and their record just keeps jumping. In wrestling, in order to get people out in front of the live crowds, they’ll be facing way more tin-cans than a professional fighter would. But a record like 20-1 when you’ve been in the company for mere months and the viewer realizes they only cared about maybe 3 of those matches isn’t a good thing.

Demanding completionism from fans is a risk too. It’s a big ask for a large subset of people who might only be interested in Dynamite and maybe Rampage, with these records really blowing open the “lore.”

It’d be like if you’re watching Star Wars and suddenly the screen froze and you had to read all these background lore on Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber. It’s cool that it’s there for nerds for that shit, but it is not important to the laser sword fight.
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